Manuel Alberto Freire

Manuel Alberto Freire de Andrade y Armijo (4 November 1767-7 March 1835) was a general of the Spanish Royal Army.

Biography
Freire was born in Seville to a Spanish cavalry officer and served as a minor cadet in his father's regiment from the age of seven. In 1780 he was an ordinary cadet and fought in the French Revolutionary Wars at the Battle of Mas Deu. In 1807 he took part in the Peninsular War as a guerrilla general and took Cordova in 1811. After the end of the war, he was involved in politics.